Medication Safety
Nursing Process and Client Teaching
Drug Action
Medication Administration
Medications and Calculations
100
Right client, right drug, right dose, right time, right route
What is "FIVE RIGHTS" OF DRUG ADMINISTRATION?
100
Assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation
What is NURSING PROCESS?
100
Process of drug movement to axhieve drug action.
What is PHARMACOKINETICS?
100
Sublingual, buccal, oral, transdermal, topical, instillations, inhalations, supposistories and parenteral.
What is a VARIETY OF FORMS AND ROUTES?
100
Decimal system based on the power of 10.
What is METRIC SYSTEM?
200
Study of interrelation of heredity on drug response
What is PHARMACOGENETICS?
200
An awareness of the implications of culture for family and/or client.
What is CULTURALLY SENSITIVE?
200
The liver is the primary site.
What is METABOLISM?
200
Instruct client to sit up with head tilted slightly toward the unaffected side.
What is ADMINISTRATION OF EAR DROPS?
200
Method considered the most accurate way to calculate the drug dose for infants, children, older adults and clients who are on antineoplastic agents or whose BW is low.
What is BODY SURFACE AREA (BSA)?
300
Most frequent malpractice claims against hospitals and nurses, costing about $5000 per error.
What is MEDICATION ERRORS?
300
Based on the analysis of the assessment data.
What is a NURSING DIAGNOSIS?
300
Time it takes to reach the minimum effective concentration (MEC) after a drug is administered.
What is ONSET OF ACTION?
300
Devices used to enhance the delivery of medications.
What are SPACERS?
300
Used for skin testing to diagnose the cause of an allergy or to determine the presence of a microorganism.
What is INTRADERMAL INJECTIONS?
400
A, B, C, D, X
What is FDA PREGNANCY CATEGORIES?
400
Be focused, assess the client, listen to the client, keep it simple, know the client's motivation, consider time constraints, pick the appropriate strategy, know your resources, document you teaching, trust yourself.
What is TEN TIPS FOR SUCCESSFUL TEACHING SESSIONS?
400
Occurs when the drug reaches its highest blood or plasma concentration.
What is PEAK ACTION?
400
Abdomen, upper hips, upper back, lateral upper arms, lateral thighs
What is COMMON SITES FOR SUBCUTANEOUS INJECTIONS?
400
Barrel, plunger, and tip
What are PARTS OF A SYRINGE?
500
Examples of drugs involved in medication errors and recognized as confused drug names by both the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) and TJC.
What is LOOK ALIKE and SOUND ALIKE drug names?
500
Establish a trust relationship.
What is the MOST ESSENTIAL COMPONENT OF THE TEACHING PLAN?
500
Stimulation or depression, replacement, inhibition or killing of organisms and irritation.
What is CATEGORIES OF DRUG ACTION?
500
Pull skin to one side and hold; insert needle. Holding skin side to the side; inject medication. Withdraw needle and release skin. This technique prevents medication from entering subcutaneous tissue.
What is Z TRACK INJECTION?
500
Glass container with a tapered neck for snapping open and using only once.
What is an AMPULE?